Nathaniel Hawthorne is an American author born during 1804 in Salem‚ Massachusetts. He is best known today for his short-stories and novels‚ including “The Scarlet Letter”. Hawthorne worked in the Boston Custom House to weigh and measure goods. In his novel‚ “The Scarlet Letter”‚ Hawthorne dedicated the first chapter to his experience in the Custom House and described the setting while he was there. Eventually‚ Hawthorne was fired from the Custom House and in response‚ he decided to write in order
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The Battles of Lexington and Concord were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. They were fought on 19 April 1775 in Middlesex County‚ Providence of Massachusetts Bay within the towns of Lexington‚ Concord‚ Lincoln‚ Menotomy and Cambridge. The Battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and Thirteen of its colonies on the mainland of British America. The British Army also set out from Boston to capture rebel leaders Samuel Adams
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dealerships were heavily dualled through the ’50s. Beside Chrysler-Plymouth‚ there was DeSoto-Dodge and even Dodge-Plymouth. Chrysler Corporation decoupled its Dodge-Plymouth dealerships into the 1960 model year‚ which also was the penultimate year for DeSoto. Here’s how it has used the Dart name‚ so far. What’s in a name? the dodge dart through the years1960: Dodge gets a new low-priced‚ full-size series to replace Plymouths. Based on the Plymouth floorpan‚ at 210.5 inches overall (216.5 inches‚ wagon) on
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Since its beginning over a century ago‚ basketball has evolved from a simple form of exercise with only a few rules to a highly competitive and complex national sport. Basketball was invented by James Naismith at a YMCA in Springfield‚ Massachusetts‚ in 1891 (Fox 11-13). It began as an activity for the “‘ball-game’ void” months of winter (Hanson 65)‚ and Naismith had five standards for the game. He wanted a ball that could be handled by a player’s hands; no one was to run with the ball‚ and anyone
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England region of colonies was mainly an area where families came to escape the hardships of England. During this time period‚ many puritans from England‚ who were being persecuted just because of their religious views‚ traveled to colonies such as Plymouth‚ Mass Bay‚ and eventually extend out to Rhode Island and Connecticut. The majority of the Puritans who came over from England chose to live in the Mass Bay area. The Mass Bay area was considered an area which was a safe haven for all puritan peoples
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with materials Indigenous to the Plymouth colonies. In the forward to “A Little Commonwealth” Demos states‚ “It was my wish to write a type of case study in early American life – a Study which‚ through sustained work on materials from one community‚ produces questions‚ methods of approach‚ and even some substantive conclusions that will ultimately have a much wider application”. When Demos first started his work he looked into the courts records from the Plymouth Colony‚ which he found to be negative
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Deval Patrick’s Acceptance Speech 1. Paragraph 1: “Today‚ November 7‚ 2006‚ the people of Massachusetts chose by a decisive margin to take their government back.” Paragraph 2: “This was a victory for hope.” Paragraph 3: - “by coming to you‚ where you live and work‚ by listening to you‚ by showing that we could disagree with each other without being disagreeable‚ by asking you to put your cynicism down‚ by refusing to build myself up by tearing anybody else down‚ by challenging you to see your
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How would the word Crucible be defined? The word crucible can be defined as a severe test or trial. Nevertheless the definition describes “The Crucible” because throughout the play witch trials in Salem‚ Massachusetts took place. These trials were extreme and intense‚ as a Crucible is defined. One major charter in which the symbolic significance of the title relates to is Abigail Williams. Throughout the play Abigail acted extreme about having spirits cast on her and accusing others of being witches
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They were key developments in the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775.Four of the acts were issued in direct response to the Boston Tea Party of December 1773.The Patriots viewed the acts as an arbitrary violation of the rights of Massachusetts‚ and in September of 1774 they organized the First Continental Congress to coordinate a protest. As tensions escalated‚ the American Revolutionary War broke out in April 1775‚ leading in July 1776 to the declaration of an independent United States
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In the New England colonies‚ (Massachusetts ‚Connecticut‚ New Hampshire and Rhode island)‚ they were economically different because they were deeply connected into the triangular trade network that was linked to New England ‚ the Caribbean and the west African coast. The colonist relied on the imports for glass hardware‚ machinery navigational instruments and other household items like tea. Politically New England was mainly governed by puritans. The Massachusetts Bay company stockholders got together
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